Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

In life you need to take a risk.

Debi Mazar

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Isabel Allende

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

Hill Harper

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

Hill Harper

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

John Schlesinger

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Marianne Williamson

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Malorie Blackman

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

Rupert Friend

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

Rufus Sewell

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

Robert Glasper

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.

Robin Wright

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

Shelley Fabares

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

Khalil Gibran

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind

Andy Serkis

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Andy Serkis

I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.

Alana Stewart

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

Penelope Cruz

I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

Peter Falk

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

Peter Abrahams

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

There is only one Jesus; we can't live a sinless life like He did.

Polly Bergen

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

Jane Birkin

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.